The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-27

-BTduiOfu BuIT6il, NHOSHOt q young
woman named Kerrigan, in Lowell,
Massachusetts, on the 18th, because
she refused further companionship with
him, committed suicid by hanging him
self in his cell on the evening OF the
10th. The woman will recover.
j. G. Csury and his son and Peter
Henson were struck by a train at a
railroad crossing near Lawrenceburg,
Tennessee, on the goth. Both men
were killed and the boy was fatally IN
jured. Mrs. +. M. Smith was killed
Mrs. Andrews dangerously injured and
while trying to drive across the railroad
track at Terryville, Connecticut. on
the Goth. Two freight trains on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad collided neal Massillon, Ohio,
on the goth. The two locomotives and
six cars we're destroyed, and fifteen
head of cattle killed. The loss is placed
at $3.50, 900. During the trial trip Of a
new engine on the Santa Fe Railroad
on the Goth, the engine was overturned
near Argentine, Missouri, and Robert
Sanford was caught under it and
scalded to death. John Saby and
Charles Crutchfield, switchmen, were
fatally injured.
Emanuel Zwalley and Henry
Fisher, about IA years of age, were
drowned in the Conestoga creek, near
Lancaster, Penna., on the afternoon of
the 21st. Zwalley attempted to save
Fisher from drowning, and went down
with him.
The village of Degraff. in Logan
county, Ohio, containing 1900 inhabi-
tants, had Its business section nearly
destroyed by fire on the evening of the
18th. The loss is estimated at 0,000,
The office Of the Naumkeghea
Hotel, at Cottage City, Massachusetts,
was robbed of $500 In cash and de.
posted valuables on the morning Of the
10th. Jewelry, valued at $4,000, sto-
len from the safe of Fairchild x Co.,
at New Haven, on the night of July
18th, was on the 10Th found buried III
an alley belonging to the house OF a
burglar named Feith, in Jersey City.
Jacob B. Huber, a farmer and cattle
dealer, of Oreville, Lancaster county,
Penpa., disappeared on the 10th. HE
left behind a large number of debts,
and he is SAID to have forged a number
of notes."
A terrific hail storm SWEPT over
Atchlsen, Kansas, on the afternoon of
the Goth. Many of the hailstones
measured 8 and 10 inches in clrcum-
ference, and several thousand dollars
worth of glass in windows in houses,
stores and churches having a ~northerly
exposure was smashed. The storm was
general throughout Northern Kansas,
Cars on railroad trains arriving at
Atchison had their windows OF the
north side broken. A passenger in one
of them had the bridge of his 5 fat
tened by a hailstone.
The City of Mexico was flooded
on the morning of the 22d by a rise IN
the lake, following heavy rains on the
evening of the 2lst. The inundat.on
began at night, and ''foot passengers
who were out late found themselves
obliged to travel on mems backs
through the heart of the CITY," On
the Odd the shops were icing pumped
out. There is a general demand for
the proposed great work of draining
the lake, which will remove the danger
of foundations.
The hardware store of Straw
bridge Il Co., in Boston, was robbed
between the evening of the Goth and
the morning of the 22d of $1,000 worth
of goods. While Mass was being eel
ebrated at Burlington, Wisconsin, on
the morning of the Dist, the priests
residence was robbed of $500 IN cash,
a chalice valued at 5000 and other
valuables. The alleged robber, a
young man who gave the name of A.
M. Silsby, was arrested and taken to
the county jail at Racine. While on
the way he jumped from a car window,
though the train was going at full
speed. He was stunned by the fall
and racaptured.
Miss Sarah II. Dodge, of Gardner,
Illinois, was arrested on the evening of
the 22d, on a charge of shooting and
Killing Babcock, the wealthy lumber
man from Chicago, who died from a
mysterious pistol shot. Miss Dodge is
35 years old and has been living with
her mother on a farm. Babcock fire.
quently visited them, and, it Is Tu-
mored, obtained about $4,000 from
them. Miss Dodge has a reputation
throughout the surrounding country as
a dead shot with a pistol.
Charles Morris, coloIed. recently
acquitted at Xenia, Ohio, Of the muir
der of Douthel and his wife, whose
bodies were found burned in their
cabin, was arrested in Dayton, on the
evening of the 2lst, and taken back to
Xenia on the charge of robbery and ar
son. sit is understood that new testi.
mony has been developed and the ac-
cused will be tried on the present
charge as he cannot be again tried for
that murder"
&C. f. Bartlett, cashier of the SUM-
ter National Bank, of Sumter, South
Carolina, is reported to have disap-
peared on the morning of the 22d, with
$3.50 in gold. He is also said to be a
defaulter for about $50, 600. Tie bank
has suspended temporarily, but, it is
said, ''can stand the loss.'
-Abner Searles, of Rangely, Maine,
was arrested on the 22d on the charge
of having attempted to poison a family
named Locking. SearleS contee5seu,
aud said he was paid three dollars by a
man named Durham to put the poison
in the LockIngs' food. William Sloan,
la clerk IN the Office of the Chief of
Police of Pittsburg, was fatally shot by
''Paddy" McGraw In a 'dive" in that
city about three O'Clock on the morn
ing of the 22d, and died several hours
later. the shooting was the result of
an old grudge. In a quarrel about a
keg of beer at Bolivar, PenDa., on the
evening OF the Doth, ID. W. Smith
struck Patrick Duffy on the head with
a large stone, ini.cting fatal injuries.
During a picnic near Exeter, Nebraska,
ON the evening of the Dist, some rail
road laborers attempted to carry off a
ksg Of beer. A light followed during
which two shots were fired from an
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